Streaming giant Netflix and Black Voices in Gaming have partnered up and announced the inaugural cohort of developers participating in the XPerience Excellence Accelerator program.

The XPerience Excellence Accelerator (XEA) is a first-of-its-kind mobile games accelerator dedicated to supporting and teaching Black game developers, with support from Netflix. The program combines industry education with networking opportunities and $20k funding grants for each team to “support prototype development for pitching to potential investors, publishers, and partners.”